[TriLUG] external USB drive is slow

[David A. Cafaro]

Are you seeing the following messages in /var/log/messages:

kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
vmnet-dhcpd: Configured subnet: 192.168.165.0
kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus
number 1
kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 193, io mem 0xffa80800
kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10
Dec 2004


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 14:04 -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Alan Porter wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if there might be some interaction between the
> > on-board USB-1 controller and the new USB-2 card.
> 
> I've found usb-2.0 pci cards a pig-in-a-poke (mine all come 
> from Intrex). Some work and some don't. Presumably they all 
> work on windows.
> 
> I had to turn all my on-board usb-1.1 hardware off in the 
> BIOS for there to be any hope at all
> 
> Joe